December 28, 2024

Software

How Blockchain Contracts Ensure Fairness, Flexibility, and Compensation for Option Holders | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Preliminaries Overview Protocol 4.1 Efficient Option Transfer Protocol 4.2 Holder Collateral-Free Cross-Chain Options Security Analysis 5.1 Option Transfer Properties 5.2 Option Properties Implementation Related Work Conclusion and Discussion, and References A. Codes B. Proofs B.2 Option Theorem 6. Protocol 4.2 satisfies option correctness: If both the Alice and Bob are conforming, then if Alice does not exercise the right, Alice doesn’t lose the 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡𝐴 and Bob doesn’t lose the

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How Cross-Chain Transfer Protocols Ensure Safe and Smooth Transactions | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Preliminaries Overview Protocol 4.1 Efficient Option Transfer Protocol 4.2 Holder Collateral-Free Cross-Chain Options Security Analysis 5.1 Option Transfer Properties 5.2 Option Properties Implementation Related Work Conclusion and Discussion, and References A. Codes B. Proofs B.1 Transfer Protocol Proofs Lemma 9. The holder transfer procedure of Protocol 4.2.1 does not require Bob’s participation. Proof. It is evident that, Alice does not own the exercise secret, holder’s transfer is required to

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How vLLM Implements Decoding Algorithms | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Transformer-Based Large Language Models 2.2 LLM Service & Autoregressive Generation 2.3 Batching Techniques for LLMs 3 Memory Challenges in LLM Serving 3.1 Memory Management in Existing Systems 4 Method and 4.1 PagedAttention 4.2 KV Cache Manager 4.3 Decoding with PagedAttention and vLLM 4.4 Application to Other Decoding Scenarios 4.5 Scheduling and Preemption 4.6 Distributed Execution 5 Implementation 6 Evaluation and 6.1 Experimental Setup 6.2

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LLaVA-Phi: The Training We Put It Through | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. LLaVA-Phi and 3.1. Training 3.2. Qualitative Results 4. Experiments 5. Conclusion, Limitation, and Future Works and References 3. LLaVA-Phi Our overall network architecture is similar to LLaVA-1.5. We use the pre-trained CLIP ViT-L/14 with a resolution of 336×336 as the visual encoder. A two-layer MLP is adopted to improve the connection of the visual encoder and LLM. 3.1. Training Supervised fine-tuning on Phi-2. The

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The Distributed Execution of vLLM | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Transformer-Based Large Language Models 2.2 LLM Service & Autoregressive Generation 2.3 Batching Techniques for LLMs 3 Memory Challenges in LLM Serving 3.1 Memory Management in Existing Systems 4 Method and 4.1 PagedAttention 4.2 KV Cache Manager 4.3 Decoding with PagedAttention and vLLM 4.4 Application to Other Decoding Scenarios 4.5 Scheduling and Preemption 4.6 Distributed Execution 5 Implementation 6 Evaluation and 6.1 Experimental Setup 6.2

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Hardware

Top 11 Best Games Of 2024 And Where To Buy Them

After a couple of relatively weak years in the post-COVID slump, the gaming industry roared back in 2024 with a flurry of amazing releases. There were a number of great games released this year that didn’t make it onto our list here, like Hades II, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and Pentiment (for non-Xbox consoles.) These eleven games, along with an Early Access special guest, are our picks for the best games released in 2024,

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AI

Deep Dive into Multithreading, Multiprocessing, and Asyncio

How to choose the right concurrency model Clara Chong · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 11 hours ago — Image by Paul Esch-Laurent from Unsplash Python provides three main approaches to handle multiple tasks simultaneously: multithreading, multiprocessing, and asyncio. Choosing the right model is crucial for maximising your program’s performance and efficiently using system resources. (P.S. It is also a common interview question!) Without concurrency, a program processes only

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This Cryptographer Helps Quantum-Proof the Internet

5 min read Edd Gent is a Contributing Editor for IEEE Spectrum. For Joppe Bos, the combination of interesting puzzles and real-world benefits makes cryptography an appealing career. Users of Google’s Chrome browser can rest easy knowing that their surfing is secure, thanks in part to cryptographer Joppe Bos. He’s coauthor of a quantum-secure encryption algorithm that was adopted as a standard by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in August and

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The Top 10 Telecommunications Stories of 2024

5 min read Margo Anderson is senior associate editor and telecommunications editor at IEEE Spectrum. For IEEE Spectrum readers following telecommunications news in 2024, signals expanding their reach and range animated readers to read more: Including stories on early-stage cellphone “towers” now in low-earth orbit, low-power Wi-Fi implementations reaching out for kilometers, China expanding its satellite broadband constellations into regions of the globe dominated by SpaceX Starlink, and 6G signals curving around obstacles to expand

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